Ardbill Design from Kashmir

I tend to gravitate to the richer colors...brown, beige, black, cream.  Maybe it's because I have one piece of living room furniture and that's a brown chair and ottoman.  I really don't like carpets with light backgrounds. I just think the dark rich colors are prettier.

This is a silk on silk, 3'x5', has 900 knots per square inch and comes from the Kashmir region. Silk carpets have a light side and a dark side.  If you look at them from one side, the colors are much lighter.  Look at it from the opposite side and the colors darken.  This is because the rugs are woven on a vertical loom and the weaver will yank down on each knot, causing the nap or pile to go one way.  Thus, a dark and light side to each silk carpet.

My Favorite Carpet

I fell in love with this carpet for a number of reasons.  The colors are beautiful and each section of the design is an actual design of a carpet.  It's called a Bakhtiyari and is from the Kashmir region.  For the price of one, I got lots images of carpets! It's silk on silk, meaning the knots are silk, knotted on a base of silk.  I bought this one in Muscat, Oman where many of my carpets come from.  It's from the Kashmir region and is 4'x6' and could very well end up hanging on a wall in my new home.

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